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082	1		_aFIC TOW
100	1		_aTowles, Amor
245	1	2	_aA gentleman in Moscow _c/ Amor Towles
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, 2016
300			_a462 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_a A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aAristocracy (Social class) _x-Fiction
650		4	_aHome detention _v--Fiction
650		4	_aInterpersonal relations-- _vFiction
650		4	_aHotels _v--Fiction
651		4	_aMoscow (Russia) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
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